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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953 Hardcover - 2008

by Robert Dallek; Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Editor); Sean Wilentz (Editor)

Dallek, the bestselling biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, shows how the unassuming yet supremely confident Harry Truman rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.


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The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the job, but Harry S. Truman would surprise them all. Few chief executives have had so lasting an impact. Truman ushered America into the nuclear age, established the alliances and principles that would define the cold war and the national security state, started the nation on the road to civil rights, and won the most dramatic election of the twentieth century--his 1948 whistlestop campaign against Thomas E. Dewey. Robert Dallek, the bestselling biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, shows how this unassuming yet supremely confident man rose to the occasion. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a splendid misery, but it was during his tenure that the United States truly came of age.

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  • Title Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
  • Author Robert Dallek; Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Editor); Sean Wilentz (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York
  • Date 2008-09-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780805069389 / 0805069380
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (22.10 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, Truman, Harry S.
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008010193
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2008, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2008, Page 684
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/30/2008, Page 171

About the author

Robert Dallek is the author of several bestselling presidential histories, including Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963; and the classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant. He has taught at Columbia, Oxford, UCLA, Boston University, and Dartmouth, and has won the Bancroft Prize, among numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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